Scientists say that the search for life on Venus has taken a new direction after a recent discovery made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The telescope, which has been observing distant ...

Venus, Earth's hostile twin, is growing more unpredictable for upcoming space missions. Extreme heat, crushing pressure, and ...

Richard Ghail is Professor of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London. He spoke with Srijana Mitra Das at TE ...

New findings suggest that diurnal tides, driven by solar heat, are a major contributor to the extreme speeds of Venus's winds.

A new study suggests that a once-daily atmospheric tidal cycle may be a bigger driver of rapid Venusian winds than previously ...

A failed Soviet Venus lander's long space odyssey has come to an end. The Kosmos 482 probe crashed to Earth today (May 10) after circling our planet for more than five decades. Reentry occurred at ...

Our neighboring planets are not exactly the most hospitable places. Humans have been talking about space colonization for quite some time, but our neighboring planets are not exactly the most ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye all February long — with two other planets also detectable for skywatchers ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. The moment of conjunction will happen at around 9 p.m. EDT, but don't plan on seeing the linkup. The ...

"Now, these events are sometimes called 'alignments' of the planets, and while it's true that they will appear more or less along a line across the sky, that's what all planets always do," NASA said. ...

This will be no ordinary space junk fall. "As this is a lander that was designed to survive passage through the Venus atmosphere, it is possible that it will survive reentry through the Earth ...